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Abstract Details
Activity Number:
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66
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Sunday, August 1, 2010 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Health Policy Statistics Section
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Abstract - #309417 |
Title:
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Degrees of Uncertainty with Uncertain Degrees in Respondent-Driven Sampling
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Author(s):
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Joseph Blitzstein*+
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Companies:
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Harvard University
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Address:
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, , ,
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Keywords:
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social network analysis ;
networks ;
respondent-driven ;
network sampling
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Abstract:
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Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a contact-tracing sampling design (introduced by Heckathorn) which is widely and increasingly being used to study hard-to-reach populations such as injection drug users and individuals at high risk of HIV infection. We compare model-based vs. design-based estimators in this setting, and study the bias-variance tradeoffs which result depending on what assumptions one is willing to make about the population of interest and about the network structure.
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